said the tree to the bird ... and Saint Exupery

my best friend loves trees insanly.
and i love birds a lot. in 8 th grade we had to do a yearporject in which we had to work on a subject we were allowed to choose freely. she chose trees, i chose birds.
now it happens that i am very tall and strong. in acrobatics i am always the 'underwoman' and my friend, who is quite small, was always the one on top. :)
so the joke was born: i am the tree whom she loves so much and she is the bird i love so much.

i was just going to write an allgory on a tree and how growing doesnt mean betraying oneself because a person who means a lot to me obviously seems to have a problem with how i developed recently. then i thought, well, but this person would say: yeah, I dig the tree metaphor. But don't you see that it is about roots? A tree doesn't switch roots or just hops from one place to the other. Yeah. But I still claim that I am more like a tree nevertheless. So let me try to explain...

...Said the tree to the bird: You come back every spring and you always look the same. Your song is always the same and it always warms my heart. I love to hear you singing in my twigs, I love to see you flying. You seem to be so free, you must be very strong to be able to be so free. You can go whereever you go.

Said the bird to the tree: Oh, see, I am bound to fly always the same route, I have to come back, I have to look for food, whereas you just are there, you get your nourishment just like that through your roots. I seem free and strong but indeed I have to restrict myself a lot in order to maintain that liifestyle. You look always different when I come back from my journey. You grew taller or bigger, you lost some branches, there are more plants living on you now. You nourish the things around you and you give shelter to those who are weaker, you host birds like me.

The point is, that the bird always finds back to this tree, no matter how much it changed, because of the trees roots. The bird would be scared to death if that tree wasn't there anymore one day. A tree is not ALLOWED to change roots or locations. But, a bird is also not allowed to dismiss its sense of orientation because then it wouldn't find back to this spot. If you only believe and trust what you see and think you might be deceived by how the tree changed.

Saint Exupery said with the little prince: And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.